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NASW-MO Board Elections Open Now Until May 3rd! | |
NASW-MO is holding its annual Board elections now through Friday, May 3rd! If you are a member in good standing, please cast your ballot! The link for the slate of candidates can be found here.
The positions up for election are Vice President, Member-At-Large, MSW Student Representative, BSW Student Representative, Unit C Representative, Unit D Representative, and Unit E Representative. If you need to determine which Units represent which areas, please consult the map available on the NASW-MO website here where you can view Units either on the map or scroll down for a list of counties. The Bios may be found below!
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Ethically Speaking
Vicarious Liability, Colleagues, and the NASW Code of Ethics
by Terri Cooley-Bennett, DSW Candidate, LCSW, LSCSW, CCDP-D, TTS
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What is Vicarious Liability
Vicarious Liability is legal terminology, termed as respondeat superior which means, “let the superior reply.” This doctrine is also known as “vicarious liability” (Reamer, 1998). Under this concept, social workers can be held liable for the actions of others including colleagues, supervisees, peer support specialists, and other staff in the workplace.
Vicarious Liability and the NASW Code of Ethics
As documented in the NASW code of ethics, ethical standard 2.10 addresses the unethical conduct of colleague, 2.09 addresses the incompetence of a colleague, 2.08 addresses the impairment of a colleague (NASW, 2024). A social worker may be liable when a colleague displays unethical conduct, is impaired, or is incompetent. If the colleague’s conduct causes a problem in the workplace or harms clients, this is concerning. Social workers have an ethical responsibility to correct the unethical conduct of a colleague and to address it, including unethical conduct in the use of technology. Unethical conduct may cause harm to a client and protecting clients from harm is of utmost importance.
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Social Work Month and NASW-MO! Empowering Social Workers with a big focus on Policy and Social Justice!
April 1, 2024
Cassie E. Brown, MSW, LCSW
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NASW-MO celebrated social work month in a big way, with the theme Empowering Social Workers! On March 1-2, NASW-MO sponsored a themed Virtual Conference: Macro for Everyone! and held LEAD Day at the Capitol on March 5. It was busy, but exciting.
Our virtual conference brought together dozens of attendees and a dozen speakers from across the country to share on topics of Macro Social Work and how to connect with policy, ethics, leadership, and other issues of professional macro practice, no matter what a social worker’s environment or population.
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Diversity and Awareness Observances for April | The NASW-MO Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Committee has hit the ground running this year! We are currently engaging in a strategic planning process which will guide the committee's focus and work moving forward. The committee welcomes all Missouri social workers to join us in this process of building a more inclusive and equitable social work profession! We invite you to meet on May 3rd, 10am-11:30am. Email DEIB.naswmo@socialworkers.org for more information! | Advertisements/
Promotions: | Your Inspiration for the Month | The Inspiration of the Month is Autistic Acceptance Month. I bring you the poem, “Roaming the Forest of Eager Talking,” by Adam Wolfond. Adam is a non-speaking, autistic artist, poet, and university lecturer, with several books of poetry published. This poem is raw and lovely, a glimpse into a specific way of being in the world through a neurodivergent lens. It is well-crafted and more than a little devastating. Whether you are neurodivergent and looking for some poetry that might express feelings and experiences that are relatable or are neurotypical and interested in a different perspective expressed beautifully, this brief poem is worth a read (and a re-read, and a re-re-read). | | |
From the Executive Director’s Desk | | |
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Cassie E. Brown MSW, LCSW
Chapter Executive Director
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Your participation matters. If you don’t read the rest of this article, please hear that. Whether in life or in the social work profession, if you don’t show up, nothing gets done. The people who show up are the people who make things happen.
That’s a double-edged sword, colleagues, depending on who shows up.
As social workers, I am urging you to be the people who show up. Our profession needs you. NASW-MO needs you. Missouri needs you. Our country needs you. We need social workers to stay engaged with policy.
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